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The State of the World's Children 2005 - Childhood under threat

Author: UNICEF
Price: $12.95
No. of pages: 152
Publication date: December 2004
Publisher: UNICEF
Languages:
English French Spanish
ISBN: 92-806-3817-3
Sales no.: E.05.XX.1

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The State of the World’s Children 2005 focuses on childhood, defined as the state and condition of a child’s life. The Convention of the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, offers a new definition of childhood based on human rights. Yet for hundred of millions of children the promise of childhood that undergirds the Convention already appears broken as poverty, armed conflict and HIV/AIDS threaten their survival and development. The report examines these three key threats in detail, and offers a comprehensive agenda of action to combat them. It concludes by calling on all stakeholders – governments, donors, international agencies, as well as communities, families, business and individuals – to reaffirm and recommit to their moral and legal responsibilities to children.

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